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Modeling Markedness with a Split-and-Merger Model of Sound Change

Andrea Ceolin, Ollie Sayeed

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BackgroundThe concept of 'markedness' has been influential in phonology for almost a century.Theoretical phonology used it to describe some segments as more 'marked' than others, referring to a cluster of language-internal and language-external properties (Jakobson, 1968;Haspelmath, 2006).We argue, using a simple mathematical model based on Evolutionary Phonology (EP; Blevins, 2004), that markedness is an epiphenomenon of phonetically grounded sound change.

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BackgroundThe concept of 'markedness' has been influential in phonology for almost a century.Theoretical phonology used it to describe some segments as more 'marked' than others, referring to a cluster of language-internal and language-external properties (Jakobson, 1968;Haspelmath, 2006).We argue, using a simple mathematical model based on Evolutionary Phonology (EP; Blevins, 2004), that markedness is an epiphenomenon of phonetically grounded sound change.

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BackgroundThe concept of 'markedness' has been influential in phonology for almost a century.Theoretical phonology used it to describe some segments as more 'marked' than others, referring to a cluster of language-internal and language-external properties (Jakobson, 1968;Haspelmath, 2006).We argue, using a simple mathematical model based on Evolutionary Phonology (EP; Blevins, 2004), that markedness is an epiphenomenon of phonetically grounded sound change.

Key concepts: Markedness, Phonology, Epiphenomenon, Linguistics, Sound change, Sound (geography), Computer science, History

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